You may be able to purchase the Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Cable online from the Microsoft Store or from a game retailer.

Important Use only the Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Cable to move your content. Microsoft does not license, support or guarantee the functioning of cables made by other manufacturers.

To transfer content to your new console, you'll need the transfer cable and the latest console software. The easiest way to update your console software is to connect to Xbox Live. Learn how to update your console software.

Once you have the latest console software and an Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Cable, you're ready to transfer content.You can use the Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Cable to transfer content between any two Xbox 360 Hard Drives (Xbox 360 S Hard Drives or original Xbox 360 Hard Drives).

Connect the transfer cable to the hard drive and plug the other end of the transfer cable into a USB port on the destination console (as shown below).

When both ends of the cable are connected, you’re ready to transfer.

Xbox 360 S and Xbox 360 E Hard Drive

Original Xbox 360 Hard Drive

Turn on your new console. If you have the latest console software installed, the following message will appear:

Choose Yes, transfer to console.

Select Start to begin the content transfer.

The transfer may take several hours, depending on the amount of content stored on your old hard drive. Once the transfer is complete, sign in to Xbox Live and enjoy your new Xbox 360 console.

Content licences

After you transfer your content to the new console, some content might still be associated with your old Xbox 360 console. Don't worry—you can still play the content on your new console as long as you're signed in to Xbox Live using the gamertag that originally purchased the content.

If you want to use all of your transferred content without signing in to Xbox Live or with a different gamertag, you'll need to transfer the content licences to your new console. Here's how:

Sign in to Xbox Live using the gamertag that you used to purchase the content.